Thursday, January 24, 2013

A nation that has exchanged its welfare for neither liberty nor security can be written off.

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I have received a couple of issues of Claremont
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and challenging.I do not, however, wish
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While pursuing a corporate and
then an academic career, I took about 25 years off from a brief interest in
libertarianism that crested in 1980.In
2003, with the Iraqi War, I began profiting from investing in gold.To relieve my guilt about
betting against the dollar, I renewed my interest in stemming America's 216-year-old
statist goosestep that has led to the dollar's decline.

It turned out, five years later,
that the GOP, the Democrats, and the Federal Reserve Bank had so mismanaged the
US's monetary system that Lehman Brothers' Dick Fuld had managed to squander
two thirds of a trillion dollars in Federal Reserve-counterfeit--80 percent of
the nation's money supply at that time.Since then impoverishment of America's productive classes through
counterfeit channeled to its exploitative financier class has not troubled the
two parties, the Wall Street-owned media, the Wall Street-subsidized
universities, or the American people themselves. As a
result, I no longer feel guilty about short selling the dollar; morally, I relish
it.Moreover, I plan on a permanent disengagement
from political concerns. As Montaigne put it and Jefferson once quoted:
"L’ignorance est le plus doux oreiller sur lequel un homme peut reposer sa
tête."

America is not a democracy, nor
is it a republic; it is a progressive-totalitarian oligarchy ruled by
financiers run amok. The promise of
American democracy is paltry and dull.It is a democracy with two choices: (a) Republican, Taft Progressives
who bailed out Goldman Sachs and (b) Democratic, Roosevelt Progressives who
bailed out Goldman Sachs.

In order to win the public to
accepting the financiers' fake Progressive dialectic in 1912, Progressives promised
rising standards of living and freedom. They failed to keep their promises; that
is, the promise of American life is a fraud.Socrates chose to abide by the laws of Athens because he had made an
implicit contract, but my ancestors were defrauded.I, for one, don't plan on hanging around, so
I don't care what happens here.

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Mitchell Langbert

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I have researched and written about employee benefit issues and in my previous life was a corporate benefits administrator. I am currently associate professor of business at Brooklyn College. I hold a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, an MBA from UCLA and an AB from Sarah Lawrence College. I am working on a project involving public policy. I blog on academic and political topics.